Category Archives: Radio Programming

Those who do not think about their future can not have one. This is the synthesis of Ofcom’s report on BBC, according to which the worrying defection of young audiences is the fault of the ubiquity of new platforms that are opposed to those on the air, the inability to update themselves with changes in tastes and habits and renunciation. the exploitation of native content to the advantage of a nefarious alliance in co-productions with the on demand streaming platforms that are subtracting users.

The Ofcom raises the alarm: the BBC is facing an unprecedented existential crisis due to its inability to reach a younger audience in the face of competition from commercial rivals and online offers YouTube Music(radio side) and Netflix (tv side).

The regulatory body, the Guardian explains in today’s article , has found that young people are increasingly turning away from the company’s TV and radio services and that the BBC is “not doing enough, fast enough” to reverse the situation and ensure that has a future audience for its existence.

Opcom’s research found that young people spend about an hour and 20 minutes a day consuming BBC content; about half the average for all age groups.

More deeply, one in eight young English does not currently consume any BBC content in a week; a worrying figure, given the current financing model of the UK radio and television company, which is based on convincing the overwhelming majority of the public to pay £ 150.50 a year.

According to the Ofcom, if part of the defections can be motivated by the “ubiquity of new technologies” (the reference is to the use of streaming on demand content on the move through smartphones and tablets, as opposed to the constraint of the stable location of television and indoor receiver or car radio for broadcasting over the air), on the other it must be said that competitors The same carriers (AM, FM, UHF, VHF), ie commercial radio stations, have done comparatively better than the BBC to retain the younger audience.

“The decline in use among young people is a concern, not only because this target is less served, but also because young people are fundamental to the future of the BBC,” reads Incom’s annual report on BBC’s performance.

The regulator also pointed out that BBC Three only reaches 8% of people in this age group every week, despite being an online channel specifically designed to attract younger viewers.

In summary, BBC is a broadcaster for old people. ” According to young people, it is too tied to conventional formats”, says the report, which censors the inertia of society despite being “aware of the challenges it faced” .

Although the informational authority of the BBC is not in dispute and the company has been praised for having ” enhanced the diversity of the people it represents on the air”, Ofcom has stigmatized in its report the position of users according to which “elderly women were often represented in certain roles while middle class individuals were overrepresented in the programs “.

Earphones’ turn from Ofcom to the radio-TV player on the need to become ” more transparent in explaining why BBC made certain strategic decisions and failed to focus on the distinctive content of the United Kingdom” and strong fears about”The growing use of co-production agreements by the BBC with global streaming companies such as Netflix to subsidize the production of large-budget films, such as the upcoming adaptation of Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman”.

“Third party financing allows the BBC to broadcast – and to the UK audience to enjoy – content that the BBC could otherwise not have been able to produce,” reads the report. “But funding is typically focused on programs with global appeal, rather than on content that specifically reflects the lives and problems of the British public. It is also uncertain whether the BBC can continue to rely on such agreements, given the growing attention of online streaming players to the production of their content, ” concluded Ofcom referring clearly to the renewed policies of Netflix.

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In Cebu, only 1 radio station broadcasts in HD and that is 101.1 DYIO with 3 radio HD channels.

In Davao, there is 92.3 Wild FM.

Although all stations by the government are planning to broadcast in high definition including FM1 and FM2 stations.

DAB Radio in Asia and Switzerland

In Brunei especially, following quite a while of preliminary currently has 5 DAB stations under their administration drove Radio Television Brunei.

In China, after the achievement of DAB as the communicate innovation utilized as a part of the scope of the Olympics ten years prior now have major computerized stations beginning from Shanghai and Beijing.

The main event obviously is Indonesia, just like the greatest nation as far as populace in South East Asia with more than 240 million, the nation intends to totally change to DAB in addition to this year on July 15.

Malaysia is additionally presently directing across the board investigation of the capability of DAB.

The special cases anyway are Hong Kong, Singapore and the Philippines. In HK, 3 business stations and 1 government station used to be on DAB however ceased the tasks in 2017. The reasons were poor listenership and income for the business administrators.

Singapore has favored web based gushing over DAB and the Philippines adjusted HD Radio rather than DAB. Among stations broadcasting in HD are iFM by RMN, Barangay Stations by GMA and MOR.

Real Switch in Swiss Radio by 2021

In the interim, in Switzerland, Radio rendition 4.0 will produce results in 2021 prompting the shutdown of conventional FM towers, 3 years sooner than the first arrangement of 2024.

This was declared by Ufcom (Ufficio Federale Delle Comunicazioni) in a report of the Digital Migration Working Group (Gruppo di lavoro Migrazione Digitale), dated 5 June 2018.

At introduce, the change from simple to computerized dispersion will happen in two stages: one is switch-over, the other is turn off.

The first is that before the finish of 2019 all FM projects should be dispersed in advanced mode on a DAB + stage.

The second is “the exit from the FM in 2021 to be finished in 2022”.

The procedure is designated to the Digital Migration Working Group (GL DigiMig), framed in 2013 with the point of building up a typical system went for the radio division for the planned progress of simple to advanced radio projects and uniting delegates of the SSR, the Swiss Association of Private Radios (ASRP), the Union Romande des Radios Régionales (RRR), the Union of non-business radio stations (UNIKOM) and the Federal Office of Communications (UFCOM).

Toward the finish of 2017, 39% of the radio projects in Switzerland will in any case communicate by means of FM.

Presently computerized radio gathering is accessible by means of DAB +, link systems and IP TV (the procedure of radio and TV hybridization is clearly under route there) and, obviously, IP. 85% of new autos sold in Switzerland are furnished with DAB +. Most nations in Europe are now getting ready for computerized.

People nowadays listen to radio, not just on radio apps, forget cellphonse. Well yes, in the provinces they are a staple.

But online, especially among OFWs, it’s not all about websites and apps.

They listen to radio on YouTube!

The most popular content on radio is no longer music, when you are talking about the internet domain. It’s those non-music based content, the talk based shows like love letters, on air callins and what not.

And if your radio station does not provide that kind of content to your online audience, people will find a way.

To be fair, Barangay LS 97.1 has on its website an RSS or podcast of its latest episodes of their talk based shows.

They also have mobile apps for iOS and Android. But who wants to have an app for every station? When you can listen to them in one place?

YouTube is that place. People upload recorded radio shows especially the Barangay Love Stories and Wanted Sweetheart.

They become so popular, that these YouTube contents have more views than those from official radio station channels.

So Papa Dudut, anchor of Barangay Love Stories decided to upload episodes of his shows on his YouTube channel.

It’s tricky though, there is a reason why fm stations don’t even bother live streaming or uploading their on air content to YouTube.

It is because of the copyright ID protection of the platform.

Shows like Barangay Love Stories while it is mostly talk based, also plays music in the background, that mushy sentimental background music will get copyright IDed by YouTube and will be reported to authorities and as a result the video will be taken down.

Which is why radio DJs, take it upon themselves to post it and but clear them out first of any potential copyright problems.

It is time consuming, radio stations don’t have much manpower to do it.

What they are up against to though is the democratization of uploading content to YouTube. There are already established YouTube channels out there that post Barangay LS content with much more subscribers, so there is a lot of catching up to do.

UNLESS!

Barangay LS starts to implement copyright protection to its radio shows, so they can take down those who upload their shows other than them.